Outlandos d'Amour

chronology
Outlandos d'Amour
The Police's studio album
Publication ; (s)	November 2nd 1978
admission	January-June 1978
Label (s)	A&M Records
Genre (s)	New wave , post-punk , reggae rock
Title (number)	10
running time	38:14
occupation	Sting - vocals, backing vocals, bass , harmonica on So Lonely ; Andy Summers - guitar ; spoken text and piano with Sally ; Stewart Copeland - drums , percussion , backing vocals; Joe Sinclair (guest musician) - piano with Hole in My Life and Masoko Tanga ;
production	The Police
Studio (s)	Surrey Sound Studios
April 7, 1978	Roxanne
August 14, 1978	Can't Stand Losing You
3rd November 1978	So lonely

Outlandos d'Amour is the debut album by The Police . It was released by A&M Records in November 1978 . The album reached number six in the UK and number 23 in the United States . In 1983, it entered the Billboard 200 again at number 138 . Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album at number 434 of its 500 best albums of all time.

Emergence

Outlandos d'Amour already contained some of the band's biggest hits. These include So Lonely and Roxanne , who Sting took inspiration for after a concert by prostitutes he saw near the hotel after staying in a red light district in Paris . The plate was developed with a budget of 1,500 pounds sterling was added to the band by the brother of himself Stewart Copeland , Miles Copeland III , had borrowed. However, the band could only use Surrey Sound Studios when other bands could not keep their recording dates there. The recordings extended over a period of six months. Miles Copeland was not able to pay the full cost of the £ 2,000 studio stay until much later.

reception

Greg Prato wrote on the website Allmusic .com Outlandos d'Amour is by far the most straightforward album of the band. Sting was already a first-class songwriter back then. The record is one of the best debut albums that emerged from the punk / new wave movement of the 1970s. It awarded four and a half stars out of five.

Track list

Next to You ( Sting ) - 2:50
So Lonely ( Sting ) - 4:50
Roxanne ( Sting ) - 3:10
Hole in My Life ( Sting ) - 4:50
Peanuts ( Sting , Copeland ) - 4:00
Can't Stand Losing You ( Sting ) - 3:00
Truth Hits Everybody ( Sting ) - 2:55
Born in the 50s ( Sting ) - 3:40
Be My Girl - Sally ( Summers , Sting ) - 3:20
Masoko Tanga ( Sting ) - 5:40

Individual evidence

^ The Police in the UK Charts , The Official Charts.
↑ www.allmusic.com: Charts & Awards
↑ www.rollingstone.com: 500 Greatest Albums: Outlandos d'Amour
^ Phil Sutcliffe: Outlandos at the Regatta , in: Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings , 1993, Booklet, pp. 32-35.
^ Andy Summers: One Train Later . New York, St. Martin's Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-312-35914-0 , p. 193.
^ Phil Sutcliffe, Hugh Fielder: L'Historia Bandido , London, New York: Proteus Books, 1981, ISBN 0-906071-66-6 , p. 77.
↑ www.allmusic.com: Review Outlandos d'Amour by Greg Prato

[UK_Charts-1] The Police in the UK Charts , The Official Charts.

[allmusicalbumcharts-2] www.allmusic.com: Charts & Awards

[3] www.rollingstone.com: 500 Greatest Albums: Outlandos d'Amour

[In_a_Box-4] Phil Sutcliffe: Outlandos at the Regatta , in: Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings , 1993, Booklet, pp. 32-35.

[Summers-5] Andy Summers: One Train Later . New York, St. Martin's Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-312-35914-0 , p. 193.

[Historia-6] Phil Sutcliffe, Hugh Fielder: L'Historia Bandido , London, New York: Proteus Books, 1981, ISBN 0-906071-66-6 , p. 77.

[all-7] www.allmusic.com: Review Outlandos d'Amour by Greg Prato